Self-care perspective taking and empathy in a student-faculty book club in the United States [PDF]
Purpose We aimed to study the impact of a combined faculty-student book club on education and medical practice as a part of the informal curriculum at the University of Florida College of Medicine in the United States.
Rebecca Henderson +5 more
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Characteristics of maximal discharges on toorential watersheds in Serbia [PDF]
Torrential floods are the most frequent phenomenon in the arsenal of 'natural risks', in Serbia (droughts, avalanches, landslides, rockslides, hail, forest fires, storm wind and earthquakes).
Ristić Ratko +2 more
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Entrepreneurial Resources as a Driver of Performance Differences in a Quick Service Restaurant Franchise System [PDF]
This study explored performance differences between corporate-owned and operated and franchised outlets in the quick-service restaurant (QSR) industry. While studies have shown that there is a performance difference favouring franchisees, the reasons for
Johnathan Marks, Eli Golovey
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Control and Fairness in Customer Service
Using the concept of “role theories”, the notions of fairness, freedom versus control, and psychological reactance this article examines how these human factors interact in quick service restaurant (QSR) encounters.
Odile Streed, Albert Kagan
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Comparison of methods of extracting information for meta-analysis of observational studies in nutritional epidemiology [PDF]
OBJECTIVES: A common method for conducting a quantitative systematic review (QSR) for observational studies related to nutritional epidemiology is the “highest versus lowest intake” method (HLM), in which only the information concerning the effect size ...
Jong-Myon Bae
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Investigation of the quality of functioning of a quadrature signals receiver of a continuous automatic cab signaling on records of real signals and interference [PDF]
Ensuring a safe transportation process is impossible without the use of complex systems for interval regulation of train traffic. In particular, such a system is a continuous automatic cab signaling (CACS) where signals are affected by various kinds of ...
Yusupov Ruslan R. +4 more
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High-Sensitivity Terahertz Biosensor Based on Plasmon-Induced Transparency Metamaterials
This paper presents a metamaterial biosensor composed of dual-cut wires (DCWs) and quadruple split-ring resonators (QSRs), achieving polarization-independent plasmon-induced transparency (PIT) effects in the terahertz range.
Mengcheng Guan +5 more
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AN APPROACH ON ADVANCED UNSCENTED KALMAN FILTER FROM MOBILE ROBOT-SLAM [PDF]
In the past 30 years, Kalman filter is a classical method to solve the problem of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) of mobile robots. Extended Kalman filter (EKF) and unscented Kalman filter (UKF) are derived from Kalman filter.
L. Yan, L. Zhao
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Hot Beverages at Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) Drive-Thru Windows [PDF]
The Liebeck hot coffee case is discussed, showing that the court’s decision was not whimsical, but predicated on the knowledge and behaviour of McDonald’s as represented and displayed by their employees and agents.
Sciarini, Michael P. +2 more
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Text mining and semantic triples: Spatial analyses of text in applied humanitarian forensic research
The methods and tools of Geographic Information Sciences (GIScience)—spatial analysis, spatial statistics, and geographic information technologies—are increasingly being used in forensic humanitarian projects. In this article we explore ways to parse and
Molly Miranker, Alberto Giordano
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